2024 Urban Sites Studio: Project 2

Students explored depaving and site-based strategies for reimagining parking lots in Pioneer Square and Capitol Hill as public spaces. The projects consider the material dimensions of each site, exploring potentials for material reuse, the breaking up of impervious surfaces (asphalt) to incorporate pervious surfaces (depaving), and the incorporation of landscape processes, or change, as a design medium. The course posits that “belongingness” and citizenships must be continuously practiced and verified, rather than inherited or given. Students explored narrative and defined communities that participate in landscape transformation, and how their landscape is conducive to such transformation.